Gerhard Oechtering, a veterinary professor at Germany’s Leipzig University, called for pugs and bulldogs to be banned, saying it’s unethical to keep producing members of a breed that can’t breathe properly.

Dogs are inbred to get human like faces. There is a movie about it called “Pedigree Dogs Exposed”

I own a Basset Hound, and used to get irritated at the "dogs and owners look alike" thing until one day I was working and was hot. My hair has gotten so long that the only way to pull it up and keep it off my neck was to pull it up in Maryanne pigtails (Gilligan's Island, not little girl pigtails). I caught a glimpse of myself and realized that my hair up like that looked just like my dog's ears. Next dog will be a Papillion or Pomeranian.

I hate the idea of breeding dogs with built in problems....miniaturizing everything...also, cutting off or making short legs like daschunds, bassetts, these dogs have bad back problems... brachicephalic crap like the pugs and pekinese who can't breethe (is that really a dog or just something to shove a handle in and make into a mop). Bulldogs can't even reproduce on their own their heads are so oversized...They are making big saucer eyes, and basically breeding in the "cuteness" triggers that simulate human babies. That is what small dogs are to most folks... substitute babies for those women that need to be needed... I'll stop now...I just wish they would quit breeding in deformities on purpose.

I don't think the ad works. I don't get it, and the vision is too ugly and disturbing for me to want to pursue the topic. What do flees and a particular breed of animal have anything to do with each other is beyond me. I think it must be trying to capture a cliche or a prejudice and I obviously do not associate fleas with anything other than unprotected animals.

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